We have turned a corner with this latest shooting at Brown University. One of the students who was shot Saturday is also a survivor of the Parkland massacre in 2018. Mathematicians assured us that if you were a survivor of a school shooting that the odds of it happening to you again were basically nill. That is no longer the case, and that fact makes a tragic statement about who we are in this country. Daily Beast:
A woman who just survived her second shooting at a U.S. education institution has torn into Vice President JD Vance for what she says is MAGA’s inaction on deadly violence at schools.
“It’s honestly laughable,” Zoe Weissman—who was just 12 when she witnessed the 2018 killings at a school in Parkland, Florida, and who on Saturday survived yet another shooting that left two dead and nine more injured at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island—told MS NOW Sunday.
Her comments came in response to Vance’s public statement about the Ivy League college killings. “Terrible news out of Rhode Island this evening,” he wrote on X. “We’re all thinking of and praying for the victims tonight.”
This reminds me of a campaign check that a constituent wrote out to a Republican legislator right after Parkland. The name and date was on the check and in the money columns the words “thots & prairs” were written in. That pretty much said it all for the value of thoughts and prayers when legislation is what’s needed to correct this situation.
Weissman was reluctant to accept the vice president’s condolences. “This administration was the same one that was in power when the shooting in Parkland happened, and they said the same exact thing,” she told the network. “They sent their thoughts and prayers and told us that they were thinking of us. Clearly they weren’t.”
She went on to say that “if they actually cared about us and they were actually praying for us,” then the Donald Trump administration “would do something to end the gun violence problem in this country.”
And it gets worse. The article goes on to say that Weissman is not the only person in these same circumstances.
Fellow Brown University student Mia Tretta also lived through the 2019 Saugus high school shooting in Los Angeles, surviving a gunshot wound to the abdomen unlike her best friend at the time, who was one of two people killed in the violence.
“The one thing that gave me comfort was, like, statistically, it’s practically impossible for this to ever happen to me again,” Weissman told the New York Times in a separate interview Saturday.
She added that “clearly, we’re getting to a point where no one can say that any more.”
A person of interest, who was described as being in their 30s, was detained Sunday after gunfire erupted in the engineering building at the Ivy League school.
It’s unclear what prompted the shooting, which occurred during a final exam review at the school founded in 1764.
We live in perverse times when you can’t even attend classes, or sit for a final exam, without wondering if you’re going to walk out of the room in one piece. Every generation has its particular burdens but I have to say that it never crossed my mind in either public school or college that I might not make it home that day due to being shot to death in the classroom. This is not a healthy way to live. Gun control needs to become a top priority and here we go with that old saw again. How many more times do we have to go around this particular maypole?
The leading cause of DEATH in The USA for children is gunshot.
Nowhere in the world is this true, including war zones like Ukraine and Gaza.
Why did we let this happen?
“DO SOMETHING.” Lefties favorite phrase, devoid of meaning or any type of critical thinking. Rhode Island has extremely strict gun laws, and Brown is a soft target as a “gun-free zone.” No amount of additional laws would have prevented this tragedy. How about we look at the radicals who lack God, or those on the other side who are inspired by Allah and radical Islam, to commit these horrific crimes?
We used to have gun stores on main streets in cities across America, and we didn’t have these types of shootings. The breakdown of the family and the lack of Christian faith that forms the foundation of our society and laws is the biggest change in the last 50 years, and has led to a rudderless society and people who are completely unhinged from purpose and the meaning of life. Start valuing the life that God creates, and the families that brings that life to fruition, and you will see things change. Until then, expect our rudderless society to produce chaos.
Go eff yourself, s-wad.
What EXACTLY has “thoughts and prayers” done to stop school shootings? And, about your STUPID mention of “lack of Christian faith” nonsense seems to overlook the fact that there have been plenty of mass shootings in churches AND in church-run schools. (You might also want to note that a very significant shooting was done against a Jewish synagogue in Pittsburgh during Drumpf’s first term. How do you reconcile THAT with a “lack of Christian faith” or are you saying they deserved to be attacked because they weren’t Christians?)
The gun LOBBY is more interested in selling guns than any nonsense about the Second Amendment (in fact, they were selling 2A merchandise that ignored the amendment’s introductory “security” clause for decades before the right-wing members of the Supreme Court decided that part no longer applied as written).
TYVM Joseph. PEACE, live long & be prosperous.